Summary:
Two of today's top investigative journalists went undercover and discovered the reality of the world's most foremost biker gang — The Hells Angels. With an estimated 2,500 members in 25 countries, the Hells Angels have inspired a global subculture of violence and fear.

Summary:
After forty years in the Hells Angels, George Christie was ready to retire. As president of the high-profile Ventura charter of the club, he had been the yin to Sonny Barger’s yang. Barger was the reckless figurehead and de facto world leader of the Hells Angels. Christie was the negotiator, the spokesman, the thinker, the guy who smoothed things out. He was the one who carried the Olympic torch and counted movie stars, artists, rock musicians, and police chief captains among his friends.
But leaving the Hells Angels isn’t easy, and within two weeks of retirement, he was told he was “out bad”---blackballed by his fellow Angels, prohibited from wearing the club patch, and even told he should remove his Death Head tattoo.
Now Christie sets out to tell his story. Exile on Front Street is the tale of how a former Marine gave up a comfortable job with the Department of Defense and swore allegiance to the Hells Angels. In this revealing, hard-hitting memoir, he recounts his life as an outlaw biker with the world’s most infamous motorcycle club.

Summary:
In this breathtaking cultural history filled with exclusive, never-before-revealed details, celebrated rock journalist Joel Selvin tells the definitive story of the Rolling Stones’ infamous Altamont concert in San Francisco, the disastrous historic event that marked the end of the idealistic 1960s.
In the annals of rock history, the Altamont Speedway Free Festival on December 6, 1969, has long been seen as the distorted twin of Woodstock—the day that shattered the Sixties’ promise of peace and love when a concertgoer was killed by a member of the Hells Angels, the notorious biker club acting as security. While most people know of the events from the film Gimme Shelter, the whole story has remained buried in varied accounts, rumor, and myth—until now.
Altamont explores rock’s darkest day, a fiasco that began well before the climactic death of Meredith Hunter and continued beyond that infamous December night. Joel Selvin probes every aspect of the show—from the Stones’ hastily planned tour preceding the concert to the bad acid that swept through the audience to other deaths that also occurred that evening—to capture the full scope of the tragedy and its aftermath. He also provides an in-depth look at the Grateful Dead’s role in the events leading to Altamont, examining the band’s behind-the-scenes presence in both arranging the show and hiring the Hells Angels as security.
The product of twenty years of exhaustive research and dozens of interviews with many key players, including medical staff, Hells Angels members, the stage crew, and the musicians who were there, and featuring sixteen pages of color photos, Altamont is the ultimate account of the final event in rock’s formative and most turbulent decade.

Summary:
Call me the last of my kind. I'm a made man. Swore the blood oath, omertà, and never looked back when I became a member of one of the Five Families in the Mafia. I came around when bosses, captains, and soldiers were real men, not like the rats we have today who earn their money then betray their friends when the feds make the going tough. I've been in "the life" most of my life. My name is Frank Palmeri. Palmeri is not my real name because even though I make my living now by legitimate means, I'm still a member of the Mafia. I always will be. As I said, I swore the oath. The Mafia is more than a crime organization; it's the life you live. I served time because of a wire-wearing rat. Now I'm writing this book and sharing information about a secret organization that is no longer secret because the rats have spilled everything. So you understand, this book is not written by an informant who wants to look good now that he has cooperated with the government... ...I never cooperated. ? After completing a long prison sentence, wiseguy, Frank Palmeri, shares his thoughts about the decline of the New York Mafia. Palmeri discusses the basic tenets of the Mafia organization, including the code of silence that so many made men discarded when they decided to cooperate with the federal government. In turn, the US government systematically deconstructed the Mafia using the 1970 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act (RICO). Palmeri describes the history of the Mafia, including the creation of the original Five Families of New York (Genovese, Bonanno, Gambino, Lucchese, and Profaci, which later became the Colombo Family) by Charlie "Lucky" Luciano in 1931. The author reveals a series of poor leadership decisions, as well as unnecessary and "unapproved" murders within the organization that eventually led to prominent members from all of the Five Families to turn on each other in order to bargain for more lenient sentences or protection from the feds. The basic structure and chain of command in the crime organization is described. Palmeri also calls out the failures and missteps of Mafia bosses and underbosses, including John Gotti, John Gotti Jr., and Sammy the Bull Gravano, which later made it easy for the government... ...to arrest and convict many prominent made men. The main point of Bugs, Bull, & Rats speaks directly to the title of the book. Palmeri blames the breakdown of the organization from 3000 made men in the '70s to fewer than 500 members in the current day to the betrayal of weak-minded members... many of whom Palmeri believes should never have been inducted into the organization.

Summary:
Admitted career criminal adventurer and outlaw motorcycle club associate, Bad Bob, reveals his sometimes haunted, sometimes fortuitous friendships and dealings with U.S. Special Forces, Green Beret, Navy Seals, ex-employees of the U.S. Secret Service and National Security Agency, serial killers, bank robbers, meth cooks, and with various outlaw motorcycle club members from the Bandidos to the Hells Angels. Bad Bob lays out a riveting and action-packed continuing story of his involvement in bank robberies; dope-house robberies, and credit card scams, barroom killings, intravenous drug use, drug deals, and general motorcycle antics, intertwined with a candid account of his true life story. From a small northern Illinois town to Ferguson and North St. Louis County, Missouri, south to Texas, and across the country coast to coast, Bad Bob relives over forty years of ups and downs, which includes various prison sentences in several states and federal Bureau of Prisons, and his life on the run. His new book “Outlaw Adventures of Bad Bob: Autobiography of a Career Criminal,” takes the reader along on his adventures through Illinois, Missouri, Texas, New Jersey, California, Oregon, New Mexico, Washington State, Arizona, and back to Texas. A land surveyor by trade, but outlaw adventurer by nature, Bad Bob tells of his loves, his losses, and his eventual conviction and sentence to 25 years in Texas for a crime he did not commit.

Summary:
A year after the fact, the brief, deadly, biker brawl in the parking lot of the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco, Texas on May 17, 2015 remains a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. Nine people died and nineteen more were wounded. Numerous news outlets “explained” the event as a “real life Sons of Anarchy episode.” Until now, that has been as insightful as writers for numerous national and international publications have dared to be. From the very beginning, local authorities in Texas have tightly controlled the narrative of what happened in Waco that Sunday in May in order to save themselves from embarrassment and criminal and civil liability. Almost two hundred people face long prison terms for conspiring to act criminally although so far local prosecutors have refused to state what each of those defendants actually did other than try to survive. The prosecutors’ refusal to talk about the case has led to widespread and often wild speculation.
Now, the shroud of propaganda and lies has finally been lifted. In the exhaustively researched The Twin Peaks Ambush: A True Story About The Press, The Police And The Last American Outlaws, Donald Charles Davis tells the true story of that tragic day to you. And what you read will surprise, touch and outrage you.

Summary:
Becoming a Son is the first book written by David Labrava.
David writes from life experience as he has lived more lives than most people ever will, and he did it all over the globe.
David is an accomplished Glass artist, Tattoo artist, Five Diploma Harley Davidson Motorcycle Mechanic, Producer, Director and an award winning Writer and Actor.
David is a member of the most famous and notorious motorcycle club in the world.
David was the Technical Advisor on the hit TV series Sons of Anarchy from the inception to the completion of the series.
David was also a series regular on the show, reaching that position after being hired as the technical advisor, then becoming a day player actor, then a recurring character then moving to series regular.
All of these things had to be earned, as they were not for sale at any price.
Becoming A Son is not about them. It’s about David getting to those spots. It’s about overcoming great odds and coming out alive.
David left home at fifteen years old and hit the streets. This is David’s journey of discovery and redemption spanning a course of forty years. From the beaches of Hawaii and California, to the forest of the great Northwest, to years in Amsterdam, San Francisco, New York City, Miami then back to California.
David hit some highs and survived severe lows, living years on the streets, in and out of jail only to take his life back, and then squeeze every bit out of it that life has to offer.
Becoming A Son is a journey of epic proportion. It’s about realizing your dreams and then against the odds achieving them. Adventuring across the globe David learned many lessons by reaching out and trying everything, making many mistakes and paying the price for it and living through it. Now he wrote about it.
David has been writing and getting published for over 14 years. He wrote for the Motorcycle magazine ‘The Horse’ then had his own column in the National Hot Rod Magazine ‘Ol Skool Rodz’ for eight years.
He co-wrote Episode ten in season four of SOA which Time magazine awarded an honorable mention to as best of the season. David also won the 2013 Readers Choice Buzz focus award for Best Wildcard Actor.
Like great authors before him Labrava takes the reader into some dark places most people would never dare to go.
Becoming A Son is a modern day story of living on the street and redemption, it is one man’s journey into the darkness of himself crossing the planet and transcending all levels and then coming back again full circle. It is an inspiration for anyone who is chasing their dreams and making them their reality.
Becoming A Son will come to be known as an instant classic.

Summary:
Learn the real stories behind legendary events in motorcycle outlaw history.
Pretty much everything the world has ever heard about one-percenter motorcycle clubs has been pure, unadulterated bullshit. Take the so-called Hollister riot of 1947 that started it all. LIFE magazine convinced America that what Hunter Thompson called "The Menace" was about to ride into town spewing rage and 30-weight motor oil, and America believed it.
So what really happened in Hollister? Greatest One-Percenter Myths, Mysteries, and Rumors Revealed divulges the truth about that incident and many more legendary events, including Charles Manson's desire for a biker army, what really happened to the Easy Rider bikes, and an examination of the mystery of the Waco shootings. The truth will be revealed, but only if you crack the spine on this book and read the real story.
Topics covered in this book include the following:
Lost Lore of the Laughlin River Run
The Straight Satans and Charles Manson
Inside the Heads of the Infiltrators
The Growth of the Three-Piece Patch in Red China
The Mystery of the Easy Rider Bikes
Blunders Down Under
Women in the Wild: Mamas, Sheep, Ol' Ladies, and Lies
Purple Wings: Codes, Secrets, and Anti-Everything Acronyms
The Holiness of Hollister, the Sins of the Scribes
The Strange Rise and Fall of Japan's Bosozoku
Putin's Angels: Throwing the Separation of MC and State to the Wolves
Who Really Hatched Easy Rider?
Confessions of Murder on National Television
"Can You Guys Ride?": Giving the Cast of Sons of Anarchy Their Keys
Waco: The Biggest Mystery of All

Summary:
Master Sergeant Roman Keane is six hours and one last salute from retirement. After twenty-three years and three combat tours with the 75th Ranger Regiment, he’s got a Silver Star, a titanium knee and a plan to see America on his Road King motorcycle. No more patrols, no more firefights. Nothing more dangerous than passing the old work van rumbling along in front of him as he rides toward Hunter-Stewart and the sunset of his career in the Army.
But just as he twists the throttle to pass, a woman’s bare foot smears a bloody print on the van’s back window. Roman turns back to help, triggering a chain of events that puts his brother Virgil and two old friends in the crosshairs of a murderer. Saving them sends Roman on a desperate ride from Savannah to DC, where he discovers that the past he has been trying to forget has not forgotten him. It’s been waiting patiently, holding his secret like a time bomb.

Summary:
The amazing true story of the only white man to rise to the top of the Chinese mafia.
In August 2013, “Bac Guai” John Willis, also known as the “White Devil” because of his notorious ferocity, was sentenced to 20 years for drug trafficking and money laundering. Willis, according to prosecutors, was “the kingpin, organizer and leader of a vast conspiracy,” all within the legendarily insular and vicious Chinese mafia.
It started when John Willis was 16 years old . . . his life seemed hopeless. His father had abandoned his family years earlier, his older brother had just died of a heart attack, and his mother was dying. John was alone, sleeping on the floor of his deceased brother’s home. Desperate, John reached out to Woping, a young Chinese man Willis had rescued from a bar fight weeks before. Woping literally picks him up off the street, taking him home to live among his own brothers and sisters. Soon, Willis is accompanying Woping to meet his Chinese mobster friends, and starts working for them.
Journalist Bob Halloran tells the tale of John Willis, aka White Devil, the only white man to ever rise through the ranks in the Chinese mafia. Willis began as an enforcer, riding around with other gang members to “encourage” people to pay their debts. He soon graduated to even more dangerous work as a full-fledged gang member, barely escaping with his life on several occasions.
As a white man navigating an otherwise exclusively Asian world, Willis was at first an interesting anomaly, but his ruthless devotion to his adopted culture eventually led to him emerging as a leader. He organized his own gang of co-conspirators and began an extremely lucrative criminal venture selling tens of thousands of oxycodone pills. A year-long FBI investigation brought him down, and John pleaded guilty to save the love of his life from prosecution. He has no regrets.
White Devil explores the workings of the Chinese mafia, and he speaks frankly about his relationships with other gang members, the crimes he committed, and why he’ll never rat out any of his brothers to the cops.
Told to Halloran from Willis’s prison cell, White Devil is a shocking portrait of a man who was allowed access into a secret world, and who is paying the price for his hardened life.

Summary:
"Dink, dink, dink came the audible chime of the aluminum baseball bat as I was bringing it down - breaking one of Randy's bones with every ringing swing!"
American Outlaw: Price of Pride ~ is a galvanizing adventure of non-stop pulse-pounding action that will take you on a roller-coaster ride through worlds that most people only see on the big screen. From prison escapes, to prison gangs, outlaw bikers, to life on the run from the law.
Peer through the eyes of Jimmy Maxwell as he takes you behind the violent prison walls and to the top of one of Oklahoma's most notorious and feared gangs. Be with him when he finally walks out of those cold institutional gates into the free world for the first time in 16 years! And stand with Jimmy - or against him - as the federal marshals go all out... to get him locked back behind them.
American Outlaw is the first book in a non fictional, series on the life of the modern day outlaw Jimmy Maxwell. This autobiographical volume is uniquely framed around Jimmy's MSNBC 'Lockup' appearance, which not only brings the reader into the high-octane, adrenaline charged, and often thought provoking life of Jimmy Maxwell, but also how it feels to reveal his successes and failures on camera.
This book contains violence, adult content and language which would not be appropriate for children.
"American Outlaw is a raw and unapologetic journey into the world of one of Oklahoma's most notorious inmates. In sincere and colorful language, Jimmy Maxwell conveys the complex, bewildering - and sometimes terrifying - truth of time spent running from the Law."
-Michael Mason, editor, This Land magazine

Summary:
Homeward Highway is the story of a man who thought he had lost everything. In an act of inspiration, or desperation, he hit the road on a motorcycle searching for a way to reclaim his life, or to claim himself for the first time.

Summary:
Jeff Buck thought he'd seen it all. Twenty years working undercover in the netherworld of drugs had left him burned out and grateful to assume the quiet job of police chief in the small town of Reminderville, Ohio. That is, until a simple domestic assault case turns out to have links to the murder of a drug runner in upstate New York and a syndicate smuggling billions of dollars in drugs across the U.S.-Canada border.
As Buck reluctantly plunges back into his old world of death and deceit, he uncovers a complex chain linking the Hells Angels to the Russian Mafia in a plot to use Native American tribal land to smuggle their deadly wares into the United States. From grow houses set ablaze in Quebec to the insular St. Regis Mohawk Indian Reservation, from board rooms and biker wars to the frozen rivers that serve as private turnpikes for the drug gangs, Buck opposes a serpentine criminal enterprise that has every reason to want to end his crusade in violence and bloodshed.

Summary:
Outlaw for Life is the real life story of the notorious Waterloo Outlaws MC! Described by law enforcement and newspapers as a “ruthless motorcycle gang”. This club captured, held and firmly controlled their territory as an unsanctioned branch of the one-percenter Outlaws Motorcycle Club for 20 years! Loaded with riveting club exploits never divulged before! Discover the secrets of the most notorious motorcycle club in the history of the state! Relive the life and times of the Waterloo Outlaws MC! Over 500 members strong from 1966 to 1986!

Summary:
The only patch-wearing outlaw biker to become a sworn police officer and live to tell his tale
In 1977, Wayne “Big Chuck” Bradshaw was Jersey tough. He was a member of the outlaw Pagans bike gang, a One Percenter, and had earned his colors in a world of boozing, bloody bar fights, and high-stakes crime. But after getting too close to extreme violence, Bradshaw made the life-threatening decision to change his path.
The toughness Bradshaw used to survive biker life led him to a distinguished and heroic career as an undercover narcotics officer for the same New Jersey police department that had once arrested him. Bradshaw tells his story with the truth of the streets, from his time in the U.S. Army to his decision to join the Pagans, to the wild adventures of working narcotic stings. He rode with truly dangerous criminals and then returned to those same places as a cop. He tracks down fugitives in Jersey’s toughest neighborhoods, risks his life rescuing dozens from a fire in a seniors’ residence, and volunteers in the aftermath of 9/11.
Jersey Tough is an unflinching memoir of personal struggle, of battling with darkness, and ultimately of redemption.

Summary:
San Francisco is a small city with big problems. When Matt Stark witnesses his father's murder, he decides to rid the city of one of its problems - the man with the scars. Matt is dangerous with his fists. He is good on a motorcycle. Vengeance is new to him, but he is a quick study. With the help of his childhood friend, Striker, and the beautiful and mysterious Maria, Matt decides to find his father's killer and even the score. "The City" has many secrets, however, as Matt discovers when he embarks on a quest for justice that will make him question everything he thought he knew.

Summary:
In a world of powerful contradictions, loyalty is paramount. Matt Stark is a strong man with strong convictions. When an old friend needs his help, Matt and his crew won't let anything, including borders, stop them from answering the call. Hobb, a sadistic millionaire, is out for blood - Hannigan's blood. But blood is not all that stains "The City", and Hobb has interests that extend beyond vengeance to a place far darker than anyone imagines. Beneath power lies fear, but fear is a luxury some can't afford. Money, power, and delusion make for a heady cocktail. To set things right Matt, Maria, and Striker must return to a San Francisco full of horrors beyond their wildest dreams.

Summary:
An inside look at the deadly street war between Canada’s most violent biker gangs. With frightening and compelling detail, Showdown lets readers experience firsthand the personalities and day-to-day workings behind the brutal and deadly rivalries that mark one piece of Canada’s criminal underworld.

Summary:
In this thrilling conclusion to the IRON KINGZ Series, Forty-Five and Wolfman must avenge the deaths of their brothers. They will experience dangers neither could have imagined. From the highways and byways of the East Coast, to blizzards in New York City, the action-packed novel will have you turning pages late into the night.

Summary:
Thomas Chandler is a criminal attorney and independent Harley rider; Earle Hastings is an outlaw biker, Harley mechanic, and president of the Vermont chapter of the Skuldmen Motorcycle Club, one of the most notorious outlaw 1%er motorcycle clubs in North America. Despite being from different worlds, the two men are the best of friends.
While test riding the attorney's Harley, Earle overhears a conversation between three men of Eastern European descent, discussing a bombing they are planning. When the horror the world comes to know as the Boston Marathon Bombing occurs, Earle makes a connection to the event that shakes him to the core.
After Earle is hunted down and shot by one of the terrorists, Thomas goes on a quest for revenge with guidance from two federal law enforcement agents. Enlisting several chapters of Skuldmen in New England to assist him in locating the third Boston bomber, the lawyer is conflicted as he straddles a fine line between the two worlds he lives in, and the choices he must make when it comes to moral justice, or biker justice.

Summary:
It is 1967 in Alaska and Brad discovers a car wreck. He picks up something of value to a biker gang member and finds himself fighting for his life and the life of friends and the woman he loves. The story ranges from Alaska to Texas and back to Alaska.

Summary:
For the first time, here's a no-holds-barred inside account of life for criminal gang members in cities and towns across Canada.
Mark Totten has slowly gained the confidence of gang members in many Canadian cities and small towns, and he knows enough to get the real goods from these men and women. In this book he tells the life stories -- so far -- of ten gang members drawn from across the country. Murderers, rapists, addicts, drug traffickers, victims of child abuse, abusers themselves -- these are people who many consider the worst of the worst.
But from their life stories, a more nuanced and complex picture emerges. The circumstances and events which lead children and teens into criminal life become clearer.
Meet:
Jake, a 28-year-old former neo-Nazi skinhead gang member who beat people up "just for the fun of it," then became a drug dealer and a freelance enforcer for organized crime groups
Kim, a Cree woman with two addicted parents who joined her gang at 14, kept off drugs, and ran a group of prostitutes until going to jail -- at just 16
Dillon, a Latino-Canadian, sexually and physically abused as a young boy, a drug dealer and gang leader in high school and later head of a local chapter of a major international gang until he was "honoured" out
No one will think the same way about criminal gang members and the circumstances that lead to a life in crime after reading this compelling and revealing book.

Summary:
Enforcer of the Sons of Thunder Motorcycle Club, Mason Hackett, aka Rambo, has worked hard to carve a place of respect and trust within the group of men he calls brothers. Ellen Abrams a widow and mother to JD, a boy with autism, accepts a position as principal at Brookfield Alternative High School in Milwaukee. One night Mason’s and Ellen’s carefully crafted worlds collide. While attending a rally the Sons of Thunder are hosting, Mason becomes the target of club president, Spider Mullen’s, and vice president, Mad Dog’s wrath. Deliberately disregarding club protocol, Mason has invited Jack Nelson, the owner of Fortunate Sons’ Auto dealership, to the rally without their permission. If the invitation puts Mason in the good graces of Jack Nelson, his punishment will be worth it. Jack is the only person who can free Mason from the monotony of mill work and offer him a life of easy cash and the thrill of a daring life style. After promising Spider and Mad Dog, he will take full responsibility for Jack’s actions, and offering them a solemn apology, Mason escapes with only a single blow to the abdomen and orders to stand guard at the end of the road. A humbled Mason accepts the task, but not before finagling a ride on his motorcycle. On her way home from a colleague’s cabin, Ellen’s car breaks down and she finds herself stranded on a dark, lonely highway, with no cell reception. As night encroaches, horrific memories of the accident that killed her husband seven years ago, resurface. Finally a single headlight splits the darkness. When Mason Hackett rolls up behind her, and peers into the window of the car, his long, wind-swept hair, intense eyes, and formidable club colors escalate her fears. However, Mason’s offer of help and his sincere regard of her safety, alleviate some of her distress. With no other alternatives available, Ellen agrees to ride back to the rally with him. While sitting behind Mason on his motorcycle, her thighs squeezing his, Ellen experiences a resurgence of sexual desire, she thought had died with her husband. At the rally, Ellen is introduced to a bizarre world where sexual promiscuity, violence, and drugs are taken for granted. She watches Mason’s girlfriend, Desi Harrington, an exotic dancer, dance upon a flatbed trailer, while Mason serves as her dancing pole. She witnesses a card game between a drunken man and woman that leads to vicious knife fight between the woman’s husband and her opponent. Yet despite the unrefined rawness of Mason’s world, throughout the night Ellen continues to be infatuated with Mason and finds herself resentful of the fact he has a girlfriend. Mason too, can’t stop watching Ellen and is surprised by how attracted he is to a woman so obviously not of his world. Their attraction does not go unnoticed by those around them. Dee Dee Mullen, Spider’s wife, warns Mason that Ellen is not one of them and Desi’s jealous nature is evident the moment he introduces the two of them. At the end of the night, Mad Dog offers Ellen a place to sleep in his tent, and Mason can’t understand why he is so envious of his best friend. Days after the rally, the two of them meet once again and succumb to their passion. A relationship ensues that pits one world against the other. Mason meets JD, Ellen’s ten-year-old son with autism and realizes in order to keep Ellen he must be a father figure to the boy. The task seems like a hopeless endeavor. At the same time, Jack Nelson hires Mason to be his hit man for his lucrative drug trade. Although Mason begins to make more money than he thought possible, his risky profession begins to topple his relationship with not only Ellen, but with the Sons of Thunder. One day Jack pays Mason to kill Mad Dog. A treacherous showdown is planned. In a twist of fate, Ellen becomes an unwitting pawn in their deadly scheme.

Summary:
Bomber is an outlaw.
Bomber is a man with a code.
Bomber is a man who is completely straight.
Bomber is a man who always looks to do the right thing. And Bomber above all else, is a man who is absolutely loyal to his family.
Both of them.
Well, two out of three anyway.
The sixth of Iain Parke’s books set in ‘The Brethren MC world’ - a series of crime thrillers set amongst UK outlaw bikers and biker gangs (an environment made most familiar by the American TV series Gangland, and Sons of Anarchy)